Taking versus confronting visual perspectives in preschool children.

Developmental Psychology Taking Versus Confronting Visual Perspectives in Preschool Children

Effectiveness of a Combined Training Package on Strengthening Visual Perceptual Skills in Preschool Children

Objectives: Paper and pencil exercises are extensively used to enhance children’s visual perceptual skills, while exercises involving volumetric shapes have been neglected. The present study aimed to develop a combined training package, including volumetric shapes and paper and pencil exercises, and to investigate its effectiveness in strengthening the visual perceptual skills of preschool chil...

Developing Reading Readiness Test for Preschool Children: Study of the Preliminary Version's Psychometric Properties

Background and Purpose: One of the components of school readiness is reading readiness. Development of valid and reliable tools to assess the pre-reading skills in preschool children by taking into consideration the Persian language and culture is one of the educational needs and part of the process of decision making and placement. The purpose of this study was to provide an effective tool for...

Experiences of racism among African American parents and the mental health of their preschool-aged children.

OBJECTIVES We examined the relationship between parents' experiences of racism and children's well-being and the influence of the residential neighborhood characteristics on this relationship. METHODS African American families were recruited from Baltimore neighborhoods. Parental measures included racism experiences and coping. Neighborhood measures included demographic characteristics, socia...

The Effectiveness of Quinn’s Early Childhood Education Program on the Self-esteem of Preschool Children

Background and Purpose: Preschool period is one the most important developmental periods in childhood that paying attention to it can lead to the development of healthy personality in adulthood, because concepts related to cognitive, emotional, affective, and social development are founded and evolved in this period. Accordingly, the present research was conducted to investigate the effectivene...